On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 02:48:58PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> >>
> >> If there is no good short authoritative book on troff, and if you are
> >> not already proficient in troff, try TeX instead simply because of the
> >> TeXbook if not something else.
> >
> > And mind you, I know for sure there is TeX for Plan9---even if I'm the
> > only one interested in it; but it is published as a side effect of my
> > own needs, not as a goal.
>
> the Te?book may be authoratative, but it's by no means short.
You can get started with the very first chapters. And once you stumble
upon something more special, you pick up the book.
300 pages without the appendices, and with exercices it's short; and
exhaustive. Compare with books about "LaTeX".
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